Quote by Harold MacMillan
We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts. – Harold MacMillan

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America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an ?lite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment. – W. H. Auden

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